New Slingplayer

[HerbieC]

Originally Posted by jmorton10

Well yea, that's always been the case when one is analog & the other digital (it was no different with the old software as far as that goes). For some reason, it was displaying the same channel lineup for both sources & obviously that's not going to be right.

~John

You probably had the other device set up through both inputs at some point and thats why sling.com had it set like that. You probably forgot to rescan when you changed the source.

[jmorton10]

Originally Posted by ACHlLLES

I have to say the quality looks better than ever using using it via my navigation in my car.

I agree, I run mine through my 7" DVD/NAV screen also & it looks WAY better then it ever did before.

~John

[rdcrds]

On my PC my firmware says 1.2.12 how do i update the firmware? it says last updated 2/09/09 i did do the update of the sling but i have never done the firmware update how do i do that thanks.


when i click check for updates it says none avil cause i did the other update already

[jmorton10]

Originally Posted by rdcrds

On my PC my firmware says 1.2.12 how do i update the firmware? it says last updated 2/09/09 i did do the update of the sling but i have never done the firmware update how do i do that thanks.


when i click check for updates it says none avil cause i did the other update already

Firmware updates are done in the original setup wizard.

~John

[rdcrds]

When i go to help and check for updates on it then it says no updates avil.

[ACHlLLES]

dude its telling you there isnt one for your box

[TreyBeno]

Originally Posted by jmorton10

Well, that makes sense really,

Whenever you display an image like that on a smaller screen it always looks better (especially when you have a somewhat limited bandwidth)

~John

And that is the ultimate reason why our images seem so grainy. They really should have a version that supports our higher resolution screens. I mean if the streaming media player can keep up then so should SPM.

[davejet]

hey slingbox experts wheres the best and cheapest place to buy a slingbox and which is the best version?

[lasteclispe]

Originally Posted by jmorton10

OK, after using it last night & all morning today I am a whole lot happier with it.

I definitely do get full screen display from any high-def channel using my Slingbox Pro. I was p!ssed about no portrait option as I had been using that a lot, but the reason I was using it was that a lot of the time the picture using landscape was almost unwatchable. Switching to portrait gave a dramatically better picture & also allowed the FPS to be displayed so you could see that the FPS was very low (2 FPS at times) & that explained the low image quality.

Now, with this new version the landscape image is fine (the best I've ever seen) & also full screen. I have a Pro-Clip bracket in my truck that automatically connects the video & audio out from the phone to my 7" dbl din in-dash DVD/NAV screen & my kick @ss stereo. This morning, I dropped my Wife at work (an 18 mile drive) & we had the SB on the whole time displaying a high-def local channel. The picture was almost perfect the whole way which it has never done before & we've made this exact same drive hundreds of times. There is one spot during the drive where it almost always cuts in/out for a minute & sometimes drops the connection totally. Today, it gave just a tiny glitch in that spot & kept on playing just fine.

Now, if I could just get the favorites function to work correctly, I would be really happy with the new version. I was mad that it wouldn't display the FPS, but if it continues to work this well I don't really care what the FPS are......

The new version is pretty much identical to the iphone/ipod version (I have had it for a while in my ipod touch), but the iphone won't allow Sling use with the data connection so if you don't have a WiFi connection you're screwed.

~John

EDIT: I am running the Dec 18th NRG Dusk ROM (sense 2.5/WM 6.5)

can you link the pro-clip your using? I'm looking for a way to hook up my tp2 to my cat audio/video.

[themuffinman]

Been using the latest player for the last couple of days quite a bit but honestly I would have to say that my over all experience hasn't been no where quite as good compared to running slingmobile1.6. I know many may disagree but this version just seems way too watered down, its basically slingmobile for dummies.